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The Diplomatic Onus is Placed on Iran

By | 06.25.09 | 9:58 am

Helene Cooper has a good piece in The New York Times about the Obama administration’s evolving stance on Iran, but it leaves out something that’s going to be an increasingly relevant concern if the regime weathers the opposition’s challenge to its authority: when negotiations with Iran can or More…

Berman, With Pence, Introduces a Changed Iran Resolution

By | 06.18.09 | 7:15 pm

This dropped in the last hour and I’ve obtained the full text. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has changed Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) resolution on Iran significantly, chopping out the more provocative preambles that David Weigel reported on. It now reads:

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Thirty-Two Dead in Iran?

By | 06.17.09 | 2:50 pm

Reuters is reporting that state-run Iranian media claim that seven people have been killed in demonstrations and protests since Friday’s election. But my understanding is that this press release from a consortium of Iranian human rights activists claims to have confirmed 32 deaths due to regime crackdowns on More…

Obama’s Iran Policy to Focus on Human Rights, Not Election

By | 06.15.09 | 12:01 am

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As reports of political violence in Iran intensified after Friday’s fiercely disputed election, the Obama administration insisted that it would not interfere with the struggle for power between regime-backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the thousands of demonstrators who contend the election was stolen. Administration officials, on and off the More…